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The process is constrained by the (low) cost of electricity. Monel cathode substrates, electrolyte equilibration, and a mixed metal (NiChrome) nucleation facilitate the synthesis of this CNT wool. Carbon dioxide is the sole reactant in this CNT transformation, providing a financial impetus for the removal of this greenhouse gas.
EPFL scientists have developed an Earth-abundant and low-cost catalytic system for splitting CO 2 into CO and oxygen—an important step towards achieving the conversion of renewable energy into hydrocarbon fuels. This is the first time that such a bi-functional and low-cost catalyst is demonstrated.
The platform can also use low-cost and high-specific-energy conversion-type cathodes that are not suitable in lithium-ion or other liquid-based cell architectures. The company intends to begin production of a 20 Ah high-content silicon anode cell by the end of 2021, with 100 Ah expected to follow in 2022.
A team from Saudi Aramco Research and Development Center has developed a novel low-cost, high-octane gasoline blend component it calls SuperButol. Overall single pass conversion is 14 vol%. Unreacted butenes are recycled to the reactor until all the butenes are converted to the isomers of butanols and iso-octane. 2017.01.062.
Production from the plant is slated to begin in 2017 for regional distribution, and three additional trains in the following years are expected to increase its capacity to 640MT/day. The low-cost, modular systems can be trucked in and assembled onsite for easy deployment. Primus Green Energy Inc.,
Velodyne LiDAR’s new approach to the development of solid-state LiDAR sensors reflects the application of a monolithic gallium nitride (GaN) integrated circuit, developed in partnership with Efficient Power Conversion (EPC). Each integrated circuit is less than 4mm square.
The US manufacturing sector is growing; US manufacturers have created almost 500,000 jobs since 2017 and more than 250,000 jobs in the last year alone. A key focus is developing and scaling new, low-cost manufacturing processes to catalyze increased domestic battery manufacturing for vehicle and stationary applications.
Velodyne LiDAR’s new approach to the development of solid-state LiDAR sensors reflects the application of a monolithic gallium nitride (GaN) integrated circuit, developed in partnership with Efficient Power Conversion (EPC). Each integrated circuit is less than 4mm square.
NOVONIX Anode Materials LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NOVONIX Limited, was formed in 2017. Such a plant would feed a 50,000 metric ton per year conversion plant to produce battery grade lithium hydroxide to support domestic manufacturing of the lithium-ion battery cells to power 750,000 electric vehicles per year.
New developments will target further applications of such materials in chemical conversions of hydrocarbons. Currently, the team is working on adapting their technique to other precious metals and non-precious substrates. The research was supported by National Science Foundation grant DMR-1410175 and a Johns Hopkins University Catalyst Award.
Department of Energy (DOE) grant to continue their research in developing low-cost, high-strength carbon fiber. The center’s Carbon Materials Technologies Group received the award for a project titled “Precursor Processing Development for LowCost, High Strength Carbon Fiber for Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessel Applications.”
US manufacturers have created almost 500,000 jobs since 2017 and more than 250,000 jobs in the last year alone. A key focus is developing and scaling new, low-cost manufacturing processes to catalyze increased domestic battery manufacturing for vehicle and stationary applications.
With ultra-low platinum loadings of 0.01 The DOE target for the period 2017-20 is 8 kW per gram of platinum with a loading ten times higher. mg/cm 2 in both electrodes, the platinum utilization was so high that PEM fuel cells delivered power reaching up to 10 kW per gram of platinum. Resources. Martin, P.L. Garcia-Ybarra, J.L.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected two projects for continuation within the Department’s Solid State Energy Conversion Alliance (SECA) Program research portfolio. The selections were based upon an assessment of demonstrated progress in developing high-performance, low-cost SOFC technology.
R&D is concentrated on low-pressure, materials-based technologies and lower-cost, high pressure tank technologies for hydrogen storage systems to meet performance targets. Three overarching performance targets for onboard hydrogen storage systems are: gravimetric capacity; volumetric capacity; and system cost. kWh/kg (5.5
Conversion of Landfill Gas to Drop-in Renewable Fuel This project closes the logistic loop from feedstock to end point user by allowing waste hauling trucks to unload and refuel at the same landfill site with a renewable diesel fuel derived from the very waste they hauled. Trash2Cash-Energy LLC. Reaction 35, LLC. NanoSonic, Inc.
As the world’s leading natural gas producer, the United States could benefit from using low-cost natural gas as an alternative to other energy sources for transporting goods. Opportunities exist to improve performance, reliability, durability, cost effectiveness, and efficiency of natural gas vehicles through research and development.
This potentially could reduce enzyme costs in biofuels production. Cellulases (enzymes) deconstruct lignocellulosic biomass for conversion to biofuels such as cellulosic ethanol and biochemicals. Four designs showed complete lack of inhibition by lignin—but with lower cellulose conversion compared to original enzymes.
Combing these benefits with a low-cost precursor currently in development, the result can be a carbon fiber product that is 40% less expensive to manufacture than current commercial products. Oxidation is the most time-consuming phase of the multistep carbon fiber conversion process.
With the preparation of methyl ketones from sustainable carbon sources firmly established, it is of significant interest to develop new methods for the conversion of methyl ketones into fuels that can be used directly in conventional diesel engines. g L -1 in E. —Harrison and Harvey. —Harrison and Harvey. Harrison and Benjamin G.
These new catalytic conversion strategies are focused on making ATJ blends that include additional hydrocarbon products—such as aromatic content—to allow for greater blending volumes of the AJF product. Earlier post.). ChemCatBio, a consortium within the US Department of Energy, awarded funding to LANL in support of the project.
Metal oxides of earth-abundant elements are promising electrocatalysts to overcome the sluggish oxygen evolution and oxygen reduction reaction (OER/ORR) in many electrochemical energy-conversion devices. In contrast, our method produces a family of new high-performance and low-cost catalysts. O x and Ni 0.33 —Wei et al.
With a nameplate capacity of 100 tons/year, the demo plant will allow the conversion of various resources (industrial-grade sugar from beets and cane, glucose syrup from cereals, second-generation sugars extracted from wheat straw, bagasse, wood chips…), into high-purity isobutene. Earlier post.).
Symbio unveiled the van at the FC Expo 2017 in Tokyo. The customized e-NV200 offers taxi drivers a similar total cost of ownership to a hybrid taxi, but with the range of an internal combustion engine. It can be recharged from a low-cost power supply, and refueled with hydrogen in three minutes (3.8
Two projects will research, develop, and use integrated computation materials engineering (ICME) techniques to develop lowcost carbon fiber from a variety of feedstocks and precursors that can be used to make carbon fiber with less energy and lower cost. ICME LowCost Carbon Fiber (Area of Interest 2).
The funding for the research came from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) SunShot Initiative which aims to make solar energy a low-cost electricity source for all Americans through research and development efforts in collaboration with public and private partners and from the Swiss Confederation and the Nano-Tera.ch initiative.
(NYSE:ALB) and Orocobre Ltd (ASX:ORE) received a severe hammering in March after Morgan Stanley forecast that Chilean lowcost brine producers could add as much as 200kt per year by 2025, while expansion of China’s and Australia’s hard-rock mines could pump in another half a million metric tonnes over the timeframe.
The first hydrogen TTO is focused on durable, high activity electrocatalyst with low platinum content and lowcost for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell applications. Conventional polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell technology requires high content of platinum electrocatalyst, which raises manufacturing costs.
A ceramic-based mechanical pump able to operate at record temperatures of more than 1,400 ˚C (1,673 K) can transfer high-temperature liquids such as molten tin, enabling a new generation of energy conversion and storage systems. 2017) “Pumping Liquid Metal at High Temperatures Up To 1,673 K,” Nature doi: 10.1038/nature24054.
Particularly noteworthy is that FA has a high volumetric hydrogen density of 53 g L –1 , which exceeds the 2017 target of 40 g L –1 for on-board hydrogen storage updated recently by the US Department of Energy (DOE).
As an example, EPS suggests that a Cirrus SR22 (a single-engine four- or five-seat composite aircraft) fitted with the Graflight V-8 could carry the equivalent of two additional passengers flying the same distance as with a Continental gasoline 315 horsepower engine while still realizing a 40% reduction in fuel cost.
This research article focuses on a highly favored route to the synthesis of controlled nanostructures at high rate, high yield, and lowcost by molten carbonate electrolysis. Licht (2017). —Licht (2017). —Licht (2017). Click to enlarge. 2017.02.005. 2017.02.011.
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To create practical solar fuels, scientists have been trying to develop low-cost and efficient materials—photoanodes—that are capable of splitting water using visible light as an energy source. Over the past four decades, researchers identified only 16 of these photoanode materials. Qimin Yan, Jie Yu, Santosh K.
litre engine has been developed with the latest turbocharging, fuel injection, combustion system, structural design and low-friction technologies to deliver significant improvements in fuel efficiency, performance and operating refinement, while delivering the durability and lowcost-of-ownership demanded for a Transit power unit.
For 20 years, researchers have shown that CNT membranes offer tremendous promise for a wide variety of uses including the low-cost production of ethanol fuel, precision drug delivery, low-energy desalination of seawater, purification of pharmaceutical compounds, and high-performance catalysis for the production of fuels.
These researchers were recruited to NYU Tandon as part of a “cluster hire” over two years from 2017-2019 to anchor Tandon Dean Jelena Kova?evi?’s From the very first day of joining NYU, we started a conversation about how we can collaborate on different aspects of this new initiative.
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